Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Contract Bridge tournament in Washington, D.C., New Yorkers Richard Kahn & Peter Leventritt piled up a final session score of 299½ points to take the Masters' pair championship, bridge's biggest title...
...Every well-dressed man should have at least 30 pairs of shoes in his closet," says Nashville's debonair W. Maxey Jarman, 47. He talks that way because he makes the famed Jarman shoe and 23 other brands. Jarman breaks in a new pair himself once a week. He says it is the simplest way of keeping a check on the products of his company, the General Shoe Corp...
...doubles next day, the U.S. veteran (32) Bill Talbert and young (20) Tony Trabert, unbeaten over a two-year span, made short work (67 min.) of the Japanese pair of Nakano and Goro Fujikura. After breezing through the first two, 6-0, 6-2, the U.S. pair ran into trouble, trailed 1-4 in the third set, but finally...
Though the producers have changed the locale, period and much of the plot, it is still the amusing story of a pair of elegant swindlers preying on a group of social snobs who turn out to be just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood...
...Lady falters under the weight of romantic complications that Hollywood has piled on the Lonsdale original. Until then, however, it breezes along pleasantly. The lines are bright, the style brittle. Actor Wilding and Actress Garson (unaccountably wearing a black wig) make a suave and charming pair of scoundrels...